Author: Sue Purkiss
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140818088X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
What could be worse for a ghost than not being frightening enough? That's Spooker's problem as he faces his Practical Haunting examinations at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School, under the watchful eye of the Inspectre-ate and Sir Rupert Grimsdyke (who's definitely not Spooker's favourite teacher). He isn't helped by the fact that he's sent for training to a brand-new house in Buttercup Avenue - not at all the kind of dingy, creaky building in which ghosts feel most comfortable. Spooker must find a way to spook the most unspookable people imaginable . . . Or maybe ghosts don't have to be scary, after all?
Spook School
Author: Sue Purkiss
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140818088X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
What could be worse for a ghost than not being frightening enough? That's Spooker's problem as he faces his Practical Haunting examinations at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School, under the watchful eye of the Inspectre-ate and Sir Rupert Grimsdyke (who's definitely not Spooker's favourite teacher). He isn't helped by the fact that he's sent for training to a brand-new house in Buttercup Avenue - not at all the kind of dingy, creaky building in which ghosts feel most comfortable. Spooker must find a way to spook the most unspookable people imaginable . . . Or maybe ghosts don't have to be scary, after all?
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140818088X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
What could be worse for a ghost than not being frightening enough? That's Spooker's problem as he faces his Practical Haunting examinations at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School, under the watchful eye of the Inspectre-ate and Sir Rupert Grimsdyke (who's definitely not Spooker's favourite teacher). He isn't helped by the fact that he's sent for training to a brand-new house in Buttercup Avenue - not at all the kind of dingy, creaky building in which ghosts feel most comfortable. Spooker must find a way to spook the most unspookable people imaginable . . . Or maybe ghosts don't have to be scary, after all?
Horror from the Deep
Author: Pete Johnson
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
ISBN: 9781847151216
Category : Charlie (Fictitious character : Johnson)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Charlie's brilliant spook skills have earned him a holiday on Earth. He finds himself on the trail of a very mysterious ghost. A giant three-eyed octopus is terrorising two ghosts living on a pirate shipwreck. Can Charlie and his friend, Lewis, discover the identity of the tentacled beast before they come to a sticky end?
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
ISBN: 9781847151216
Category : Charlie (Fictitious character : Johnson)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Charlie's brilliant spook skills have earned him a holiday on Earth. He finds himself on the trail of a very mysterious ghost. A giant three-eyed octopus is terrorising two ghosts living on a pirate shipwreck. Can Charlie and his friend, Lewis, discover the identity of the tentacled beast before they come to a sticky end?
The Spook who Sat by the Door
Author: Sam Greenlee
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814322468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel. As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814322468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel. As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393069206
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393069206
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.
Ghost School
Author: Sue Purkiss
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598891140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Spooker, a young ghost, finds that the art of haunting is no easy task.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598891140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Spooker, a young ghost, finds that the art of haunting is no easy task.
Tiffany Sparrow Spook Slayer
Author: Billy Bob Buttons
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522817338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
My name is Tiffany Sparrow and my job is to slay spooks. It can be messy work, but I enjoy it. Mostly. I get to do a lot of travelling which is fun, but often just to crumbling tombs and spidery cellars. My mum was a slayer too; and so was my grandmother. I miss them terribly. They were killed, you see, by Grimdorf the warlock, so now there's only me and my old grandad left. But the word on Voodoo street is... GRIMDORF'S BACK! And he's brought a few of his pals with him. 'WONDERFUL PENMANSHIP' Tons of Fun 'Tiffany is the sort of girl every girl wants to be. Cool, funny and a scythe-weilding, kong fu-kicking spook slayer' School News
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522817338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
My name is Tiffany Sparrow and my job is to slay spooks. It can be messy work, but I enjoy it. Mostly. I get to do a lot of travelling which is fun, but often just to crumbling tombs and spidery cellars. My mum was a slayer too; and so was my grandmother. I miss them terribly. They were killed, you see, by Grimdorf the warlock, so now there's only me and my old grandad left. But the word on Voodoo street is... GRIMDORF'S BACK! And he's brought a few of his pals with him. 'WONDERFUL PENMANSHIP' Tons of Fun 'Tiffany is the sort of girl every girl wants to be. Cool, funny and a scythe-weilding, kong fu-kicking spook slayer' School News
Spook Country
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. • spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” • country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. • spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—The Washington Post Book World
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. • spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” • country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. • spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—The Washington Post Book World
The Spook's Curse
Author: Joseph Delaney
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1782952462
Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Spook's Curse is the second book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'By now the dark has noticed you and will be trying to hunt you down . . .' It's the job of the Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, to protect the County from the dark. But deep in the catacombs beneath Priestown lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat - the Bane. As they prepare to battle it, yet another deadly enemy emerges to threaten Tom and his master.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1782952462
Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Spook's Curse is the second book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'By now the dark has noticed you and will be trying to hunt you down . . .' It's the job of the Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, to protect the County from the dark. But deep in the catacombs beneath Priestown lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat - the Bane. As they prepare to battle it, yet another deadly enemy emerges to threaten Tom and his master.
The People's Republic of Everything
Author: Nick Mamatas
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 1616963018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“[Mamatas] is the People's Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, author of Embassytown Welcome to the People's Republic of Everything—of course, you've been here for a long time already. Make yourself at home alongside a hitman who always tells the truth, no matter how reality has to twist itself to suit; electric matchstick girls who have teamed up with Friedrich Engels; a telepathic boy and his father's homemade nuclear bomb; a very bad date that births an unforgettable meme; and a dog who simply won't stop howling on social media. The People's Republic of Everything features a decade's worth of crimes, fantasies, original fiction, and the author's preferred text of the acclaimed short novel Under My Roof.
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 1616963018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“[Mamatas] is the People's Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, author of Embassytown Welcome to the People's Republic of Everything—of course, you've been here for a long time already. Make yourself at home alongside a hitman who always tells the truth, no matter how reality has to twist itself to suit; electric matchstick girls who have teamed up with Friedrich Engels; a telepathic boy and his father's homemade nuclear bomb; a very bad date that births an unforgettable meme; and a dog who simply won't stop howling on social media. The People's Republic of Everything features a decade's worth of crimes, fantasies, original fiction, and the author's preferred text of the acclaimed short novel Under My Roof.
Spook
Author: Jane Little
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN: 9780689714177
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A little dog belongs to a witch, until the Halloween night he falls off her broomstick and meets a little boy with magic powers of affection.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN: 9780689714177
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A little dog belongs to a witch, until the Halloween night he falls off her broomstick and meets a little boy with magic powers of affection.